Danny Baza Blas

March 28, 2019 at KUSI studios in San Diego, California  Take a look at the video from my appearance on KUSI San Diego 

My DNA was analyzed my results are illustrated in the image.  I’m mostly Pacific-Islander at 80%. I have 5% indigenous from the Americas.  It’s nice to know what I thought I was is what I thought. 

Can you find me? I love working on the Chamorro Cultural Festival planning committee. Most Saturdays I'm at Guahan Grill with these fine folks. 📍 Guahan Grill 3373 Rosecrans St (619) 693-5766 This year the festival is on March 24th

Irensia at Chamorro Cultural Festival 2017 from db.blas on Vimeo . This is an example of cultural preservation served to the youth in the Chamorro community.

Pacific Islanders were sailing large stretches of ocean--thousands of miles into the wind--a long time ago before European imperialist expeditions of exploration and colonization began. The histories and the technologies used by innovative Pacific-Islander seafarers were destroyed in order to subdue the population and make them more malleable to western intent. This video explores some of the ideas being researched and reconstructed to bring life to ancient seafaring culture of pre-European contact Chamorros of the Mariana Islands.

Click to enlarge current position [Today's video (below) "In Transit" includes appearances by: Martin Reedy, Akash Kataria, Lloyd Keigwin, Neal Driscoll, Woody Sutherland, Steve Walters, Chris Griner] The image to the left displays our current position (latitude and longitude) as well as the current temperature, wind speed, and barometric pressure. Our current position is on the Beaufort Sea at a point near where the Mackenzie River empties into the Beaufort Sea. Click here to see a map . The ship, the crew, and the science team are engaged in full-bore instrument deployment at the moment. The gravity core , multi-core , and piston core instruments have been in-and-out of the water all morning and afternoon. Marti Jeglinski 's team are busy taking the cores, labeling and storing the cores. Brendan Reilly has been scanning the cores, using an assortment of instruments, to determine the contents of the cores. Brendan does this without opening the core...

This blog post was written from the upper most observation deck (Aloft Conn), which is the 08 Deck, above the bridge. The Beaufort Gyre source: http://goo.gl/7scLp6 This is what it looks like from the Aloft Conn (D. Blas) Today (Monday) is purely a transit day. We are making our way east from Barrow, AK to the Beaufort Sea, where we will begin sampling around the Beaufort Gyre. When we finally arrive to our desired location, the science team and the Healy crew will begin the deployment of the core sampling tools to collect sediments. Our expectation is to arrive to our location between 8-10pm. Not much new to report at this time, other than rougher oceans than the previous days. Signing off from the Aloft Conn. Your blogger, Danny Blas (D. Blas)

Day two was an opportunity to get to know the ship better, its crew, and some of the protocols related to having a successful time on board USCGC Healy. Day two had me visiting sick bay because prior to my departure flight from San Diego to Barrow, I "tweaked" my knee, and it became inflamed and was quite painful. Doc, who happens to be Chamorro (just like me, from the island of Guam) hooked me up with an ice bag and some anti-inflammatory and pain reduction meds. Today I awoke almost pain free. Pictured to the left is USCGC Healy source: http://goo.gl/6ZOBDw Today the science crew members are busy setting up and staging the instruments which will be deployed from the rear of the vessel, using the A-frame to lower it into the ocean. A science crew, pictured to the left, sending sensing instruments into the water: source: http://goo.gl/g2WH51 I hear we will be headed to sea this afternoon. In the meantime, I'll be recording videos to edit for the next blo...